A Brief Introduction to the Story of Teahouse

In A.D. 1898, the corrupt Qing Dynasty was teetering, but Yutai Teahouse, a big teahouse in Beijing, showed a scene of "prosperity". You see, those caged birds play with crickets, sell antiques and jade, and tell fortune. The escort is talking about martial arts, and the wrestler comes to make peace with the "enemy"; Master Qin, the rich man, wants to open a factory to "save the country through industry"; The waiter ran back and forth with his face in his hand, and Wang Lifa, a clever young shopkeeper, took good care of him.

A big teahouse is a small society. Behind this seemingly prosperous, there is a suffocating dark side: the market is flooded with foreign goods, the countryside is bankrupt, "five pounds of white flour is replaced by a child", the eunuch wants to marry, the patriot is arrested, and even the county grandfather is burned to death by the priest hanging in the church. This is the "rise" scene after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, which indicates the Great Qing Dynasty.

In the early years of the Republic of China, after Yuan Shikai's death, under the instigation of imperialism, warlords became independent, and civil wars continued year after year, making people miserable. All the famous teahouses in Beijing are closed, and only Yutai Teahouse is ready to open after being "improved" by Wang Zhanggui's painstaking efforts.

A phonograph was put in the teahouse, and the backyard became an apartment where college students lived. Social unrest worried Wang Zhanggui. The soldiers took his money and even the tablecloth ran away. The refugees were blocked at the door; Two "regulars" of the detective team blackmailed him; What makes him even more depressed is that two soldiers are going to marry a woman, and this kind of "business" actually goes to his teahouse to discuss.

Wang Zhanggui is very confused. He doesn't know what will happen if the world goes on. How can he live? ...

After another 30 years, Wang Lifa came to the end of his life, still struggling to support the old name "Yutai". After the Japanese invaders surrendered, the Kuomintang and American imperialism brought more disasters to the people: jeeps were rampant, spies colluded with reactionary society, and patriotic students and people were brutally suppressed; 17-year-old girls are forced to laugh; The rogue spy wanted to occupy his teahouse.

Wang Lifa was completely desperate. Before he left this world, he wanted to find some intimate people to talk about. Just then, grandpa four, who was arrested by the Qing government fifty years ago, came, and grandpa Qin also came, and finally collapsed in business. The three old people talked and laughed and exposed the cannibal society with their personal experiences. The three took out the paper money they found and marked their "funeral" in advance. They stepped back and shouted around the table, and the sad voice echoed in the air for a long time. ...

In the end, Wang Lifa was left alone. He picked up his belt, went into the inner room, looked up at the roof, and hanged himself-safely ending his life.